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A majestic ship built by Eurobricks heavyweights Bonaparte and Captain Green Hair, this ship has custom sails and rigging that may just take your breath away. If you are in Belgium, you might get a chance to see it in person, but at least the rest of us can enjoy viewing the photos and discussing such a wonderful ship in the forum.

Shipwrecks happen, but when it happens to you remember step one: locate the rum! Matthew Hurt built this amazing shipwreck scene with tattered brick sales and planks everywhere. Looks like the pirates are making the best of it though, at least they have a safe place from the rain.

Constantly pushing the boundaries of what can be done with LEGO elements, Siercon & Coral treat us with this interesting concept. They have built an island out of strange colors with the sole purpose of inverting the colors on the final image. The result is surreal and amazing.

TheBrickAvenger has taken it upon himself to recreate some Playmobile sets in LEGO form. This is his second set and it came out looking at least ten times better than the source material. I especially like the look of the prison walls where he has mixed plates and tiles to give it a real stone feel, as well as the mixing in of a few darker pieces to break up the solid color a bit. Check out the rest of the pictures on the forum, and you'll see the prison has a moving door and the great details on the dock too.

There's no wasted space on this project. The lighthouse island is full of naturally eroded rock sculpture, flying and nesting birds, and palm trees. Of course, there's the beautiful lighthouse using white with dark red highlights and a working light! The small ship is surprisingly detailed with actual sails, rolled up for docking of course. The whole scene is place atop a very cleanly designed SNOT base.

Looks like the French have set up an ambush for the Spanish soldiers in ACPin's latest creation. Goes to show that sometimes you can use some larger LEGO elements such as raised baseplates and printed wall bricks to create an interesting scene. All the greenery really pulls the whole thing together and makes me wonder what happened next!

MrBrick&BoB brings us his latest creation, from Germany. The rocky island of New Providence holds this magnificent outpost. It's diffcult to appreciate the real beauty of this build in a small photo like the one here on the blog. The rock work is some of the best I've seen with natural erosion patterns including an archway. The real majesty though is in the texture of the outpost itself. It looks as though it's been beaten by the salty wind and waves, yet stands strong against the storms to protect the soldiers inside. You won't want to miss the detailed close-up photos of the fort and the soldiers arriving by boat across the choppy waters.

Corioso has created this wonderful diorama with a group of Spanish explorers crossing a rickety bridge. The minifig combinations here really work great and there is a lot of life in the posing of them. The build itself has many great techniques including SNOT, wonderful slope sculpting, and some really nice riverside trees. You owe it to yourself to take a look at the thread for some great closeup photos.